Infrastructure and Private Sector Investment in Pakistan
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Looney, R.E.
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1997
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the role played by infrastructure in Pakistan's economic
expansion. Specifically, analysis is focused on the manner in which the expansion in
various types of infrastructural facilities interact with private sector investment, and
whether there is a long run equilibrium between infrastructure, private investment, and
GDP. The main findings suggest that infrastructure's role in this model is not as straightforward
as might appear at first. On one level, it appears that in the case of Pakistan the
expansion of public infrastructure has played a rather passive role in the country's development.
That is public facilities have largely expanded in response to the needs created by
private sector investment in manufacturing, rather than strongly initiating private capital
formation. However, from another perspective, because infrastructure has responded to
tangible needs created by private sector expansion it has, no doubt, been very effective in
alleviating real bottlenecks.
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Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 8, no. 3, 1997.
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Looney, R.E., "Infrastructure and Private Sector Investment in Pakistan," Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 8, no. 3, 1997.
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